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Kumar, Sudipti; Waymack, Nancy – National Council on Teacher Quality, 2014
At the request of the Urban League of Miami, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) analyzed the distribution of teachers in Miami-Dade County Public Schools. In this paper, the authors examine teacher-level data to determine whether indicators correlated with teacher quality vary across the district based on socioeconomic differences, and…
Descriptors: Teacher Placement, Correlation, Teacher Competencies, Teacher Effectiveness
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National Center for Education Statistics, 2013
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), in partnership with the National Assessment Governing Board and the Council of the Great City Schools (CGCS), created the Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA) in 2002 to support the improvement of student achievement in the nation's large urban districts. The TUDA focuses attention on urban…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Districts, National Competency Tests, Mathematics Achievement
Johnson, Joel D. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study confirmed appropriate measurement model fit for a theoretical model, the STEM vocational choice (STEM-VC) model. This model identifies exogenous factors that successfully predicted, at a statistically significant level, a student's vocational choice decision to pursue a STEM degree at transfer. The student population examined for this…
Descriptors: Career Choice, STEM Education, College Students, Hispanic American Students
Florida Department of Education, 2013
This data report shows the racial profile of Florida's public school teachers, and discusses short and long-term trends, distribution by race/ethnicity and length of service, and distribution by racial/ethnic and instructional categories. In the 2012-13 school year, Florida had 171,868 teachers. Each of Florida's six largest school districts has a…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Public School Teachers, Minority Group Teachers, Minority Group Students
Brennan, Patricia L. – Lumina Foundation for Education, 2011
Recently released figures from U.S. Census Bureau make one point with stunning clarity: The face of America is changing. And rapidly. Consider the numbers: The U.S. population grew by about 9 percent between 2000 and 2010, rising from 281 million to nearly 309 million. During that decade, the number of Latino residents increased by 43…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, College Students, First Generation College Students, Nontraditional Students
Board of Governors, State University System of Florida, 2011
The State University System of Florida six-year graduation rate and second-year retention rate are strong compared to the ten largest public university systems. Graduation rates for the System's minority students are also competitive, with rates for non-Hispanic Black students and Hispanic students ranked in the top 10 when compared to all…
Descriptors: State Universities, Graduation Rate, Academic Persistence, Comparative Analysis
Yazici, Dila; Akgül, Esra; Akman, Berrin – Online Submission, 2015
Starting to be implemented as of the 1960s, early intervention programs are frequently employed at the present time. Researchers develop and implement early intervention programs in various subjects and areas. These programs may be family-based, school-based, community-based, or a combination of them. This study aimed at comparing the early…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Intervention, Family Programs, Early Childhood Education
Maxwell, Lesli A. – Education Week, 2010
The momentum in Florida to expand one of that state's voucher programs is a subtle but significant sign that such programs, which have been anathema to many Democrats, are beginning to win bipartisan support in a number of states. State lawmakers from both sides of the aisle in Florida are already voicing support for new legislation that would…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Tax Credits, School Choice, Credits
Ladner, Matthew – Foundation for Educational Choice, 2011
Jeb Bush campaigned for governor on a clear and bracing set of education reforms in 1998. Having won office, he immediately pursued a dual-track strategy for reforming Florida's K-12 education system: standards and accountability for public schools, choice and options for parents. Florida lawmakers followed those reforms with additional measures.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Strategic Planning, Public Officials, State Standards
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Shannon, David; Salisbury-Glennon, Jill; Shores, Melanie – Journal of Research in Education, 2012
The purpose of this study was to explore the learning strategies used by ethnically diverse learners and to investigate the relationships among the constructs of classroom goal structure, achievement goal orientation, motivation and self-regulated learning in an ethnically diverse population of fourth and fifth grade learners (n = 396). Goal…
Descriptors: Correlation, Goal Orientation, Academic Achievement, Metacognition
Sáenz, Victor B.; Ponjuán, Luis – American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education, 2012
The educational future for Latino male students is in a state of crisis, a trend that has been especially evident at the secondary and postsecondary levels in recent years. The question of why Latino males are struggling to succeed in America's colleges is complex, and this brief explores some key factors that may be perpetuating this trend at…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Postsecondary Education, College Students, High School Graduates
Blazer, Christie – Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2012
This Information Capsule answers the most frequently asked questions about M-DCPS' academic performance during the 2011-2012 school year. Over the past year, the Florida Department of Education made over 28 changes to the school grading formula, including the transition to new, more rigorous assessments, new accountability components, and…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Academic Achievement, School Effectiveness, Grading
Booker, Barbara B. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The role of culture as a phenomenon guided this qualitative study, which examined the influence of diverse Hispanic cultures on the attitudes and perceptions towards college writing courses of female Hispanic students who are non-native speakers of English. With the increasing number of Hispanic immigrants coming to the U.S., the minority student…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Hispanic American Students, Females, Two Year College Students
Lim, Victoria – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2008
This article describes how the benefactors of University of South Florida (USF) Latino Scholarship Program (LSP) support students in more ways than one. LSP, now in its 17th year, was started by the Latin Community Advisory Committee to the USF president to attract Hispanic students to the school. The committee didn't want to just provide…
Descriptors: Mentors, Advisory Committees, Scholarships, Higher Education
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O'Connor, Noga – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2010
This study explored the relationship between Hispanic students' enrollment in community colleges and their geographic location. As the majority of Hispanics in the United States is concentrated in four states (New York, Texas, Florida, and California), this study looked into the effect of residence in one of these four states on community college…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Geographic Location, Enrollment Trends, Place of Residence
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